Drum major’s staff, 1940

Made by Henry Potter, London.

Presented to the 139th (4th London) Field Regiment by Col W J Lindsay Forbes of the 91st (4th London) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, in memory of those who fell at Dunkirk, 1940. Staff lists the names of five officers and 11 other ranks.

The 139th Field Regiment, was a ‘duplicate’ of the 91st Field Regiment, created on the doubling of the size of the Territorial Army  on the outbreak of the Second World War.